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  • proper noun A male given name, rare variant of Osmond.

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Examples

  • The story revolves around a young monk called Osmund, who is charged with the task of leading a group of mercenaries to a remote marsh to hunt down a necromancer - someone able to bring the dead back to life.

    IGN Movies 2010

  • With Medieval England having fallen under the shadow of the Black Death, a young monk called Osmund (Eddie Redmayne) is charged with leading fearsome knight Ulric (Sean Bean) and his group of mercenaries to a remote marsh.

    BeyondHollywood.com | Movie News, Reviews, and Opinions 2010

  • For reasons not entirely having to do with faith, young monk Osmund Eddie Redmayne volunteers to lead the knights into the mysterious town where, rumor has it, the plague-free villagers have been engaging in necromancy.

    Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: Black Death Scott Mendelson 2011

  • For reasons not entirely having to do with faith, young monk Osmund Eddie Redmayne volunteers to lead the knights into the mysterious town where, rumor has it, the plague-free villagers have been engaging in necromancy.

    Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: Black Death Scott Mendelson 2011

  • When I stride offstage, Osmund held high, there won't be a dry eye left in the house.

    The Smirched Times, The Spattered Times Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2008

  • When I stride offstage, Osmund held high, there won't be a dry eye left in the house.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2008

  • Bertha accordingly intimated the pleasure of the French general to the parties, without naming his motives; when the ferryman began to exclaim on the hardship of intercepting him in his trade; and Osmund to complain of being detained from his duties.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • The ferryman occupied himself in staring about at all that was new; and Osmund, having in the meantime accepted an offer of breakfast from some of the domestics, was presently engaged with a flask of such red wine as would have reconciled him to a worse lot than that which he at present experienced.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Scutari, which was forged in the name of the Acolyte, as authorised by that foul conspirator, and which agreed with the appearance of old Osmund and his young charge.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Codinton means "the place of Ceodda" and Osmaston "the place of Osmund" but, as the formation of the place names is thought to date back at least two centuries before to the Conquest, then Osmund either bore the same name by coincidence as the man from whom Osmaston took its name, or was a direct descendant.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

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